Mes nouveaux torts, ou nouveaux mélanges de poésies, pour servir de suite aux Fantaisies

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Marillier engraved by de Ghendt and a figure by the same engraver executed by Gaucher.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated in grotesque style with interlacing floral motifs. Red morocco title and volume labels. Triple gilt fillet frame on boards. Edges gilt. Head worn; foot partially fragile. A lack to the upper corner at top. Corners slightly bumped.
A poetic anthology bringing together certain earlier works and adding some new ones. Notable is the important epistle that opens the work and explains the title, in which Dorat attempts to explain the origin of his disgrace in the literary world; following this justification, Dorat cites an exchange of letters with Voltaire. This preface is doubly interesting regarding the world of letters and its intolerance, and regarding the author's biography.